Volume 114, Issue 13 (partial)

1 September 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Temperature-dependent Fano response and higher-order anharmonicity in single-crystal tellurium

Peng Wu, Yifan Li, Ying Zhang, Lidong Zhang, Ranran Zhang, Zhanfeng Liu, and Tongrui Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134301 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

In single-crystal trigonal Te, the low-temperature Fano line shape of the Raman-active $A_{1}$ mode reflects interference between the phonon and an electronic continuum, whereas four-phonon scattering substantially shortens the lifetimes of low-frequency heat-carrying phonons and lowers the lattice thermal conductivity.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Winding feature and thermal evolution of the gapped Dirac magnons in ${CrI}_{3}$

Weiliang Yao, Matthew B. Stone, Colin L. Sarkis, Yi Li, Ruixian Liu, Xingye Lu, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134413 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Here, the authors use inelastic neutron scattering to investigate gapped Dirac magnons in the van der Waals ferromagnet CrI $_{3}$ . With high-quality single crystals, they directly resolve the characteristic winding of magnon spectral weight around the $K$ point of the hexagonal Brillouin zone, which provides a key signature of Dirac magnons. The authors further show that the magnon energies exhibit an approximately T $^{2}$ thermal renormalization, consistent with magnon-magnon interactions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vestigial nematic order at zero temperature in two-dimensional frustrated quantum antiferromagnets

Matthew C. O'Brien and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134414 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Recent numerical advances have renewed interest in the two-dimensional quantum $J_{1}$ - $J_{3}$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet, but a detailed analytical theory has remained lacking. Here, the authors apply a semiclassical effective field theory and large- $N$ analysis. They show that previously overlooked interactions stabilize a quantum vestigial nematic phase at zero temperature, where discrete rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken despite the loss of long-range antiferromagnetic spiral order. This phase continues the known finite-temperature nematic phase, reflecting enhanced quantum fluctuations near the classical Lifshitz point.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

NMR evidence of pairing fluctuations above $T_{c}$ and absence of spin magnetism in the time-reversal symmetry-breaking state of ${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Florian Bärtl, Nadia Stegani, Federico Caglieris, Ilya Shipulin, Yongwei Li, Ruidan Zhong, Quanxin Hu, Yu Zheng, Chi-Ming Yim, Sven Luther, Jochen Wosnitza, Rajib Sarkar, Hans-Henning Klauss, Julien Garaud, Albert Samoilenka, Anton Talkachov, Egor Babaev, Hannes Kühne, and Vadim Grinenko

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134504 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Four- or higher-order fermionic condensates can form in non-BCS multicomponent superconductors. Here, the authors present spectroscopic evidence for pairing correlations that appear well above the superconducting critical temperature in the highly overdoped Ba $_{1 - x}$ K $_{x}$ Fe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ system with broken time-reversal symmetry (BTRS). The NMR and $μ$ SR findings show that multicomponent superconductivity appears homogeneously throughout the entire sample volume and that the BTRS state is unrelated to conventional spin magnetism.

ARTICLES

Structure, structural phase transitions, mechanical properties, defects

Computational studies on O2-P2 phase-transition dynamics in layered-oxide sodium-ion cathode materials

Konstantin Köster and Payam Kaghazchi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134101 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Machine learning-driven Hubbard $U$ prediction for high-throughput study of high-pressure manganese oxides

Bingqing Cao, Wenming Xia, Jing Zhao, and Xianlong Wang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134102 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Vacancy-driven electronic reconstruction in monolayer ${PtSe}_{2}$ : Formation thermodynamics and charge states

Xinwen Gai, Jingang Wang, and Tianxing Ma

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134103 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Topological charge constraints on defect evolution across the nematic-smectic phase transition

Jin-Bing Wu, Zhenghao Guo, Xing-Zhou Tang, Bing-Xiang Li, and Wei Hu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134104 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Inhomogeneous, disordered, and partially ordered systems

Influence of local connectivity on the Anderson transition beyond bandwidth broadening

Mohammed Zahid Malik and Raja Ghosh

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134201 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Engineering exact mobility edges in quasiperiodic Aharonov-Bohm chains

Hai-Ying Cui, Yi-Cong Yu, and Xiaoming Cai

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134202 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Signatures of light localization in three-dimensional disordered systems of dielectric particles

Yevgen Grynko, Dustin Siebert, Jan Sperling, and Jens Förstner

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134203 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Dynamics, dynamical systems, lattice effects

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Temperature-dependent Fano response and higher-order anharmonicity in single-crystal tellurium

Peng Wu, Yifan Li, Ying Zhang, Lidong Zhang, Ranran Zhang, Zhanfeng Liu, and Tongrui Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134301 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Nonadiabatic Ehrenfest dynamics with norm-conserving and ultrasoft pseudopotentials with nuclear velocity corrections on the atomic orbitals within the framework of the projector augmented wave method

Paolo Fachin, Francesco Macheda, Paolo Barone, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134302 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Wavelike phonon tunneling dominates thermal transport in the lightweight α-graphyne lattice

Xue-Kun Chen, Li-Rong Guo, Hong-Yu Chen, Zhong-Xiang Xie, Jun Liu, and Pin-Zhen Jia

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134303 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Microscopic origin of the ultralow lattice thermal conductivity in vacancy-ordered halide double perovskites ${Cs}_{2} B X_{6}$ ( $B$ = Zr, Pd, Sn, Te, Hf, and Pt; $X$ = Cl, Br, and I)

Lingzhi Cao, Yateng Wang, Zhonghao Xia, and Jiangang He

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134304 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Magnetism

Large magnetocaloric effect in ${GdVO}_{3}$

Suryakanta Mishra, Samyabrata Paria, Pratap Pal, Shubhadip Moulick, Kranti Kumar, and Debraj Choudhury

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134401 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Isotropic and intrinsic orbital current generation in epitaxial vanadium films

Hui Zhang, Haoyu Lin, Kun Zheng, Yangping Wang, Zheng Li, Jie Xu, Jing Meng, Changjun Jiang, Dongmei Jiang, Tian Shang, Qingfeng Zhan, and Yang Xu

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134402 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Absence of long-range order and magnetic anisotropy in the triangular magnet ${NdMgAl}_{11} O_{19}$

Sonu Kumar, Gaël Bastien, Jan Prokleška, Mateusz Kempiński, Wojciech Kempiński, Karol Załęski, Andrej Kancko, Cinthia Antunes Corrêa, T. Treu, P. Gegenwart, Małgorzata Śliwińska-Bartkowiak, and Ross H. Colman

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134403 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Grassmann variational Monte Carlo with neural wave functions

Douglas Hendry, Alessandro Sinibaldi, and Giuseppe Carleo

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134404 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Spinon shift current in a noncentrosymmetric quantum spin chain

Ryosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayoshi, and Takahiro Morimoto

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134405 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Spin wave freezing in Re/Co/Pt multilayers

Jan Kisielewski, Kilian Lenz, Pawel Gruszecki, Ryszard Gieniusz, Urszula Guzowska, Marek Kisielewski, Artem Lynnyk, Aleksiej Pietruczik, Andrzej Wawro, and Andrzej Maziewski

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134406 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Evolution of the 1/9 magnetization plateau in the kagome system ${YCu}_{3} {(OH)}_{6} [{({Cl}_{x} {Br}_{1 - x})}_{3 - y} {(OH)}_{y}]$

Guoxin Zheng, Yuan Zhu, Noah West, Kaila Jenkins, Dechen Zhang, Kuan-Wen Chen, Aaron Chan, Zhenyuan Zeng, Aini Xu, Oscar A. Valenzuela, Joanna Blawat, John Singleton, Patrick A. Lee, Shiliang Li, and Lu Li

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134407 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Strain-tunable quasi-one-dimensional magnetism in van der Waals layered ${FePd}_{2} {Te}_{2}$

Linxin Wu, Xunwu Hu, and Kun Cao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134408 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Scale-invariant-like states and conformal-invariant states in the vicinity of the ferromagnetic SU(3) point in the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic model

Qian-Qian Shi, Murray T. Batchelor, and Huan-Qiang Zhou

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134409 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Anisotropy-driven magnetic structures in manganese ferrite nanoparticle assemblies

Y. Ijiri, J. A. Borchers, K. L. Krycka, A. Khelil, T. Coulson, S. Siegel, N. Vanderloo, S. A. Sabol-Pulling, N. J. Talmor, H. Chen, J. J. Rhyne, V. K. Lazarov, and S. A. Majetich

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134410 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Analytical solutions for the chiral magnon splitting and all interaction parameters in altermagnetic CrSb

Roberto L. Rodríguez-Suárez, Byron Freelon, and Sergio M. Rezende

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134411 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Spin-orbit coupling effects in altermagnets: Interplay of weak spin and orbital ferromagnetism with relativistic splitting of electron states

L. M. Sandratskii, K. Carva, and V. M. Silkin

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134412 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Winding feature and thermal evolution of the gapped Dirac magnons in ${CrI}_{3}$

Weiliang Yao, Matthew B. Stone, Colin L. Sarkis, Yi Li, Ruixian Liu, Xingye Lu, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134413 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vestigial nematic order at zero temperature in two-dimensional frustrated quantum antiferromagnets

Matthew C. O'Brien and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134414 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Josephson phase shift and diode effect due to the inverse spin Hall effect

Gen Tatara, Yositake Takane, and Aurelien Manchon

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134415 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Field-tunable partially disordered antiferromagnetism, cluster glass spin dynamics, and large exchange bias in the quasi-one-dimensional spin-chain compound ${Ca}_{3} {CoIrO}_{6}$

Priyanka Mahalle, A. Kumar, Kumar Bharti, Dipanshu Bansal, P. D. Babu, and S. M. Yusuf

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134416 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Strong interfacial spin-orbit torque from $A u_{1 - x} T i_{x}$ alloys driven by orbital tuning in the $d$ band

Hyunwoo Kim, Kyoung-Whan Kim, and Gyung-Min Choi

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134417 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Controlling the irreversibility of the martensite-austenite phase transition in the ${Ni}_{47} {Mn}_{40} {Sn}_{12} {Cu}_{1}$ Heusler alloy: A path to enhancing and stabilizing the inverse magnetocaloric effect

Adler Gamzatov, Anvar Kadirbardeev, Vladimir Sokolovskiy, Dmitry Tsymbarenko, Akhmed Aliev, Kaiming Qiao, and Hu Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134418 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Self-consistent partial-wave formalism for magnetoelastic waves in layered media

L. Giovannini

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134419 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Central winding number transmutation of transient magnetic vortices

Xuefeng Zhao, Ran Huo, and Nan Gao

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134420 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

${Fe}^{III} -CN- {Co}^{II}$ pair-controlled photomagnetism and spin-glass freezing in CoFe Prussian blue analogues

Chengwei Dong, Kangkang Yao, Zitong Yang, Minxia Fang, Yunrong Mai, Sen Kong, Yue Li, Kaiyan Cao, Chang Huang, and Yin Zhang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134421 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Superfluidity and superconductivity

Topological motifs governing superconductivity in pressure-stabilized Ti-Al intermetallics

Yiming Wang, Jia Qu, Peng Jiang, Vladislav A. Blatov, Xuqiang Liu, Yan-Ling Li, and Wenge Yang

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134501 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Light-induced Andreev phase coherence and tunneling Hall effect in semi-Dirac systems

W. Zeng

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134502 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Quantum versus thermal fluctuations in phase transitions of two-dimensional superconductors

A. Ponticelli, F. G. Capone, V. Cataudella, G. De Filippis, A. de Candia, and C. A. Perroni

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134503 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

NMR evidence of pairing fluctuations above $T_{c}$ and absence of spin magnetism in the time-reversal symmetry-breaking state of ${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134504 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Superconductivity mediated by nematic fluctuations: The dispersion of collective modes

Kazi Ranjibul Islam and Andrey Chubukov

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134505 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Squeezed light generation by Cooper pair recombination in a superconductor-semiconductor structure

Sima Buchbinder, Avi Koriat, and Alex Hayat

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134506 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Pressure-induced superconductivity in ${CdPSe}_{3}$

Xu Liu, Boqin Song, Jian-gang Guo, and Tianping Ying

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134507 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Electronic mean free path of the cuprate superconductor ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ from thermal Hall conductivity

Emma Campillo, Manel Mezidi, Lu Chen, Ashvini Vallipuram, Jordan Baglo, Munkhtuguldur Altangerel, Gaël Grissonnanche, Genda Gu, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. B 114, 134508 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: Intrinsic structure of relaxor ferroelectrics from first principles [Phys. Rev. B 114, 024204 (2026)]

Xinyu Xu, Kehan Cai, Yubai Shi, Peichen Zhong, and Pinchen Xie

Phys. Rev. B 114, 139901 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026